"Conventional wisdom holds that different people learn in different ways. Something is missing from that idea, however, so we offer a corollary:
Different people,
when presented with exactly the same information in exactly the same way,
will learn different things." - John Seely Brown

"It may help to have in our minds a picture of what we mean by understanding . . . "-John Holt, Why Children Fail, p. 177by C.J. WesterbergI recently had a loooong conversation with a parent about whether his child...

Now, here were college grads looking for jobs,
and not recognizing
that showing curiosity and asking engaging questions
could show MORE about WHO they were
than reciting some resume paragraph
to interviewers
in a random interview.
-C.J. Westerberg

"There are very few schools
that purposefully try to create lines and connections between different fields. The way most high schools are set up,
you're in history class, and then the bell rings;
then you go to science class,
and then the bell rings."

"We dedicate this book to the parents of children
who are growing up in the digital age.
We hope our contribution will illuminate the strange and wondrous learning styles
of the next generation." John Seely Brown